The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-12-30
FLORIDA.

FLORIDA
Mascottites are happy now over daily
mail each way.
Key Vests proposed sewerage system
win cost Sl25,000.
The Catholics of Santa Rosa county will
dedicate their new church JAN 8.
Nose Skinner, of Jasper, has a cotton
stalk that shows 1856 matured bolls
Bands of Hope are being organized in
some of the colored schools in Orange
county.
NJ. f. Church will convene at st. Augustine
Jan. II.
Interlachen is filling up with people and
the merchants are happy with the big trade
they have had.
Arcadia is fishing for the county site of
DeSoto county, and Nocatee is stirring
strongly against it in her own favor
Some of the guests at Mrs. George John.
sons boarding house. 105 West Adams
street, Jacksonville, lost $40 Tuesday night
by a burglar.
At Palatka the work on the new steamer
Georgiana is progressing rapidly and il will
not be very long before she will be ready
for trial trip.
Arrangements are being made to hold the
next meeting of the Volusia County
time in February.
accommodation of the male help of the
Ponce de Leon Hotel at ST. Augustine is fast
approaching completion.
At Jacksonville the tourist travel is com
ing in very fairly and all trains have their
full quota. The indications are the season S
business will be a fair one.
Eight carloads of orange trees for Cali
fornia passed through Palatka Monday from
parties in and around Interlachen and, it is
said, there are more to follow.
The only casualty at Palatka Monday, as
! far as known. was the firing of a Roman
| candle through one of Mr.. Lilienthal's fur
niture store windows, but very little dam
age was done.
Near Conway, Sunday. a difficulty had
occurred between Mr.. Til and Isaac Wine
| CORD, Jr in which Winegord used his knife
to the extent of cutting Mr. Till's clothes in
several places, doing no further damages.
Lieut.. BlockIinger, United States Navy,
has assumed charge of the lighthouse de
partment at Key West, relieving Command
ant VIM. The latter viii remain some
time longer as commandment of the naval
station.
The work of laying the foundations of the
new union depot at st. Augustine was be
gun Tuesday morning, and the building will
be rapidly pushed to completion. The depot
will be handsome two-story frame struc
ture, 50 feet long by 35 wide.
DR.. Eben Tourjee, director general of that
famous school of music, tho New England
! Conservatory, reached Jacksonville en- route
TO Fort George Island Tuesday. He advo-
Gates big pipe organ for the Sub-Tropical
Exposition 10 support the chorus singing.
The new Madison county bonds, issued
to be sold, and the proceeds of the sale &c
go in payment of old bonds, now outStand
| ing and due have been negotiated at par.
1t is expected that, if this county con-
| tinues to prosper, it will be entirely out of
debt within at least twenty years.
Green Cove Springs Spring: Blaine Bros.
proprieGors of the car works here, recently
shipped quantity of sand and clay from
the Green Cove brick works to their foun-
dry in Palatka 1t may seem strange to
our readers that sand should be transported
by rail from one locality in this State to
/ another, but both the sand and clay OF
Florida varies greatly in chararter, and the
quality of these materials, found in the vi
entity of the brick works here, is particu.
larly well suited for some OF the uses in a
foundry.
The men who were arrested on suspicion
of being concerned in the shooting of MIR.
Budington, at Green Cove Springs, have
been released. Thomson explained his
presence by stating that he was watching
Bran. After the shooting Mr.. Budington
walked on, apparently unconcerBed, and
was followed by Bran, who evidently in